TY  - BOOK
AU  - Heal,Kristian S.
TI  - Breaking the mind: new studies in the Syriac "Book of steps" 
T2  - CUA studies in early Christianity
SN  - 9780813221670
AV  - BX177.15 .N49 2014eb
U1  - 281/.5 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - The Catholic University of America Press
KW  - Liber Graduum
KW  - fast
KW  - Liber graduum
KW  - gnd
KW  - Christian life
KW  - Early works to 1800
KW  - Monasticism and religious orders
KW  - History
KW  - Spirituality
KW  - Syriac literature
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION / Christianity / Orthodox
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Early works
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-339) and index; By way of a preface; Columba Stewart --; Introduction; Kristian S. Heal and; Robert A. Kitchen --; The Romano-Persian frontier and the context of the Book of steps; Geoffrey Greatrex --; Parallel paths : tracing Manichaean footprints along the Syriac Book of steps; Timothy Pettipiece --; The Book of steps on magic; Martien Parmentier --; A previously unknown reattributed fragment from Memra 16 of the Book of steps; Grigory Kessel --; A last disciple of the Apostles: the "Editor's preface, Rabbula's Rules, and the date of the Book of steps; Kyle Smith --; Biblical exegesis in the Syriac Book of steps: a preliminary survey; René Roux --; Did the author of the Book of steps understand Paul?; Matthias Westerhoff --; A broken mind: the path to knowledge in the Book of steps; J.W. Childers --; The perfect and perfection in the Book of steps; Pablo Argárate --; You are what you eat: dietary metaphors in the Syriac Book of steps; Kelli E. Bryant --; Falling from the path of perfection: sin in the Syriac Book of steps; Tera Stidham Harmon --; Disturbed sinners: in pursuit of sanctity in the Book of steps; Robert A. Kitchen --; Marriage and sexuality in the Book of steps: from encratism to orthodoxy; Sergey Minov --; "Hidden work" of the heart and spiritual progression in the Book of steps; Thomas Kollamparampil --; Reading the ascetic ideal into Genesis 1-3: hermeneutic strategies in the Book of steps Memra 21; Aryeh Kofsky and; Serge Ruzer --; Lowering in order to be raised, emptying in order to be filled: the ascetical system in the Book of steps; Jason Scully
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